Just hours into election night, Republicans acknowledged what appeared to be a historic midterm defeat – a feared “blue wave” that had begun to sweep across the country.
The extent of the collapse became clear shortly after the election closed: Republicans lost a seat in the South Carolina Senate for the first time in nearly 30 years. Democrats have been hot on the heels of House incumbents in Florida’s deep red districts. And the man in charge of the party’s re-election effort in the House was in serious danger of losing his own seat.
By 10 p.m., Democrats had already flipped three GOP seats in the House of Representatives — enough to win a majority if Republicans can’t win elsewhere — and many in the party feared dozens more could follow as voters registered their displeasure with the president. Donald Trump .
Voters in Texas, a ruby red state for a generation, appeared at risk of handing several statewide elections to Democrats and possibly controlling the Legislature. Joe Straus former Speaker of the House of Representatives, presented it as a historic rebuke of an unpopular president.
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